November 15, 2009

Book of Blessings

When we start decorating the house for Christmas, it is so fun to go through all the boxes of decorations and remember when we made them or who gave them to us. A few years ago, I made a simple cover for a composition book. It was made out of some of my favorite Christmas fabric and has a cute little tag stitched to the front cover that says "Christmas Memories".

Every year when we decorate, we set out the book on the coffee table and through out the month of December, we all take turns writing in it things we felt made that Holiday season special. We write about everything from the weather to favorite gifts we gave or received. I love to sit and read what the kids wrote in their own words. It is so fun to read/see the holidays from their prospective. It will be very fun to read this book when they are all grown up.

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Ok! That book was great. We have one for Thanksgiving in which we all write what we are thankful for....come to think of it I need to check to see if it is full! I will definitely use the Christmas one as well...thanks for sharing!

My daughter is getting married next year and I think I'll have to make them a special covered book for this. She loves journaling so this would be great. I hope you don't mind if I use your idea. It's lovely.

What a great idea!! One of the fun things that hubby and I do every year is to take a photo of the Christmas tree with its many gifts underneath before anyone is up so the kids can remember what it "all" looked like. It's fun over the years to see those photos.

What a wonderful book, Sherri! I think I will have to do something similar - my kids are growing up way too fast and I find myself wishing more and more that I could slow down these years - they are so precious.

OH I love your Christmas memory book. It would make a great gift. I could put my own Christmas traditions in to start the story. It would be wonderful to journal little kids comments on their Xmas gifts. It would make for great reading from year to year.

I love our tree topper.When we first got married we searched and searched for the "perfect" tree topper. Everything we looked at was either too gawdy, tacky or cheap looking. It was getting SO close to Christmas and we were running out of time so we decided to put a Santa hat on the tree "just for now".
Each year for the next couple of years we still looked for the "perfect" tree topper, until we realized we had it all along. THe santa hat!
This always makes for a good story when ever we have guests at Christmas!
SheilaC

I love the Christmas memories book. My favorite decoration is the Nativity set from my parents. It reminds me of the real reason for Christmas. I think we need that when we get caught up in all the shopping, etc. of the holidays.

I really love the Christmas Memories book...I may try that starting this year. Our kids are adults, but they could write in it and of course all the grandkids...what a kick to read their script years from now!

My favorite ornament, mmmm? That's hard! I can't pick just one! (Not with BOXES & BOXES of ornaments!) But the homemade stockings I have made for my family are pretty important.

My husband's was the first, the prototype & thus the smallest. (Hard to find things to fit in it.) It was all made by hand & it's lots of little patches. Next was mine, still not done after 25 years. It is a lady's boot (Since growing up my mom had the boot & the rest of us had stockings!) I still need to finish sewing seed pearl beads on it. My son had a fun dragon appliqued on his. My daughter's has a tapesty angel appliqued on it. I was going to embellish it with floss for hair, etc but she loves it just the way it is. So those are pretty imporatnt to me & very loved!

The book it's a great idea, I never think in anything like that, you can treasure forever all the moments you're living. I love to put clear lights (not multicoloured lights) all over my house, it looks so cute as a magic castle!

I love Journal Covers but don't seem to keep them up. My favrite Christmas decoration is a wooden tree and every year my daughter gives me an ornament and I put a picture of the grandchildren at Christmas from that year in it. 14 ornaments and pictures so far.
Mary Ann Dove